Rui Calçada Bastos understands how important secrecy is. The envelope as a wrapping, of a latent content, tells us nothing - it’s a façade. Many times, we don’t even see it here - lights project it, glass and photographs suggest it, like a spectre. When...
Rui Calçada Bastos understand...
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Part of the Serralves Collection Itinerant Exhibition Programme, and following the joining of the Catholic University of Portugal as a founding member of the Serralves Foundation, the exhibition Ajax et Plures by Joana Valsassina - curator of the National Itinerant Exhibition Programme at the Serralves...
Part of the Serralves Collecti...
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This intimate interview with the artist using the moniker Kuril Chto, highlights his artistic practice, politics, current exhibition, forthcoming projects, and political and philosophical position on being a Russian artist working in Portugal....
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Widely present in literature, the figure of speech called synecdoche means to understand several things simultaneously. The goal is to consider the part as the whole and the whole as the part. This is the concept that artist HElena Valsecchi uses to name her solo...
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Museu da Cidade – Extensão do Romantismo[1], housed in Porto’s Quinta da Macieirinha, has a new exhibition programme which will run for an extended period of time, with occasional additions of pieces and rotation between nuclei....
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Field by Pedro Cabrita Reis, curated by Michael Short, is a sculpture in Venice’s Chiesa di San Fantin, in an action running alongside the Biennale’s current edition....
Field by Pedro Cabrita Reis, c...
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If we could see ourselves in this moment, poetics would die. Such is the dynamic of fighting against poetics; trying to kill it and reveal it before it kills us. Poetics or the annihilation of the senses through the banalisation of the Image....
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The first major European retrospective of José Leonilson’s work has landed in Portugal. The exhibition is an intimate portrait of the Brazilian artist’s life, from the 80s generation, and is on show until September 18 at the Serralves Museum....
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When we enter, we see hanging cloths from the ceiling as if they were tapestries. They prevent us from entering, forcing us to swerve or duck. We cannot avoid them - and neither can we avoid the voices we hear, the hidden and marginalized contexts,...
When we enter, we see hanging ...
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Speeding alone at night, Morre Longe, Tiago Alexandre’s latest exhibition at Appleton, has a route: six motorbike helmets display six liquid paintings on the visors. They are stills of a route specified in the exhibition text, as the path from the artist’s house to Lisbon’s...
Speeding alone at night, Morre...
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